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Weetabix Food Company intends to hit the milestone of 99% of its packaging being widely recyclable by summer 2022. The company is on track to make 100% of its packaging recyclable ahead of the 2025 deadline set by WRAP for the UK Plastics Pact. Key changes in the works for Weetabix
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According to calculations by the World Bank, approximately two-thirds of household waste is still incinerated or landfilled. In its 4th global conference, industry leaders joined Tomra, the Norwegian specialist for waste collection, sorting and recycling, to continue to set the course for sorting and recycling significantly more plastic from household waste
Read moreAustria’s market leader in the mineral water market, Vöslauer Mineralwasser GmbH, is concretising its plans to relaunch the first and so far only PET returnable container in Austria. “In Austria, PET reusable containers were common until the 1990s, but they disappeared from the shelves completely due to a lack of demand.
Read moreRecyClass Recycled Plastics Traceability Certification was granted to first products covering both flexible and rigid, as well as food and non-food applications. The Certification attest the inclusion of recycled plastics in products containing between 10% to 100% of recycled content. With the growing pressure to demonstrate to consumers that products are genuinely
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In the last months Arol has been cooperating with Coca-Cola, together with several closures manufactures, in the validation process of the new GME 30.40 CSD (carbonated soft drinks) PET finish, both at laboratory level (c/o Arol premises) and at industrial level (c/o CCEP production line in Barcelona plant Spain). GME 30.40
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The Azcapotzalco Transfer Station and Sorting Plant, the largest and most modern in Latin America, has opened its doors in Mexico City (CDMX). With this facility, the city government is the first in the country to move towards a correct treatment of urban waste based on a circular economy concept –
Read moreKirin Holdings Company Ltd, Kirin Beverage Company Ltd, and the retailer Lawson, Inc. started a demonstration experiment of collecting used PET bottle containers at the Japanese Lawson Yokohama-Shinkoyasu store, utilising the infrastructure of the two companies.The purpose of this initiative is to promote the recycling of PET bottles with the aim
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The continual integration of CSR practices at global plastic packaging manufacturer Retal sees it constantly improving its management and mitigation of climate change, with the calculation of its corporate carbon footprint (CCF) for the third year in a row. Sustainability director Emmanuel Duffaut established a network across Retal’s plants to gather
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United Caps, an international manufacturer of caps and closures, reported it held a grand opening of its new Dinnington factory in Rotherham UK, attended by the Rt Hon Alexander Stafford, MP for Rother Valley, along with many other guests. “We established the Dinnington factory as part of our Close to You
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In October last year, PepsiCo announced that it would be the first beverage company in Germany to exclusively use 100 per cent rPET in all of its carbonated beverage bottles by the end of 2021. In April, the entire Lipton Ice Tea range was converted to rPET. Now the company is
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The Alpla Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, is taking over Plastisax S.L. The Spanish company produces plastic bottles for the cosmetics, home and personal care segments. The takeover will enable an increased use of recycled material in production operations and a strengthening of the circular economy in the
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